[pydave]

> many tools that tried to solve that problem back in the day (Flash, Spline, etc.) don't suffice these days. If you can emulate the look and feel of a hand drawn animation without requiring 1 year+ from your artists to produce content, there's an entry point.

Studios still use Flash (now called Adobe Animate) to create great looking art very quickly. I think Massive Monster used Flash for Cult of the Lamb. Klei still uses this process:

https://youtu.be/8_KBjd0iaCU?si=J1jL6fXVkvkXjWy_

But it definitely requires skill and drawing many frames: just not as many as flipbook animation.